An Independent Senate Faculty Union
An Independent Senate Faculty Union
The SCFA joined with our fellow Faculty Associations across the system to file an Unfair Labor Practice charge against the university for their handling of the Gaza solidarity encampments around the state. The charge maintains that the UC violated established…
SCFA worked with the Academic Mothers Faculty Community Network in trying to negotiate for a temporary childcare subsidy for faculty with children under the age of five years old. Childcare is an urgent need for faculty parents, and especially mothers,…
During the Spring 2024 UAW ULP strike, SCFA continued to provide critical information to faculty members. On May 3, following the UAW’s call for a strike authorization vote, we emphasized that faculty should not be expected to do the work…
As your union, we take seriously our responsibility to provide you with legally accurate information. To that end, as we communicated in our email of May 19, the SCFA has been and remains available to meet with individuals or groups…
Happy May Day! The Executive Board of SCFA sends you greetings and solidarity in advance of this international workers’ day. We write to encourage faculty to attend tomorrow’s May Day rally in solidarity with the Palestine General Federation of Trade…
Today, January 16, 2023, the SCFA submitted to Deven Desai, ELR Director, a request for information for the complete language of each stage of the faculty self-attestation form. The google form that was created by Labor Relations for faculty does…
We hope you are doing as well as possible given the accumulated fatigue from last quarter as well as the recent storms. While the strike has ended (although the contract was overwhelmingly rejected by our campus), we realize that many…
Dear Devan Desai, We write, collectively, as representatives of UAW 2865, UC-AFT, and SCFA. Due to the UAW’s strike over UC’s unfair labor practices during contract negotiations, a significant amount of the labor required to complete Fall 2022 grade submission…
We would like to invite you to a virtual SCFA town hall on Thursday, December 8, at 5PM. This will be an opportunity to hear updates regarding the bargaining process and ask any questions you might have regarding struck work,…
December 2, 2022 As we near the end of the fall quarter without a resolution between two striking units (UAW 2865 and UAW SRU) and UCOP, SCFA wants to acknowledge that instructional faculty who started the quarter with TAs or…
November 13, 2022 SCFA is sharing important clarifications that CUCFA has issued to their FAQ in response to confusions arising from the November 10 communication from Academic Council Chair Cochrane and Vice Chair Steintrager. We appreciate the efforts to remind…
On November 14th, tens of thousands of academic workers represented by UAW 2865 (the Union of Academic Student Employees at UC), UAW 5810 (Postdocs and Academic Researchers), and SRU-UAW (Student Researchers) will begin striking to resolve Unfair Labor Practices (ULPs).…
Please see the below letter to EVC Kletzer about fall teaching, sent jointly by SCFA, UC-AFT (the lecturers’ union), and UAW 2865 (the TA’s union). Linked here is the Senate Executive Committee’s letter on this topic, which we echo in…
The SCFA became concerned with the AA relationship in the spring of 2016 (see earlier report here). Reports from other universities that had contracts with AA, particularly a detailed report from Rutgers University, suggested numerous problems with their data, most…
June 10, 2020 Jennifer Schiffner Director, Employee & Labor Relations University of California, Santa Cruz Dear Jen, Thanks for your letter of June 9. The clarifications you sent, particularly the sunset clause, represent progress in the protection of faculty rights.…
This spring the university put out a call for online course proposals, to be developed over the summer with a summer stipend. A condition of the university’s call was that awardees “be willing to share these materials with their colleagues…
The SCFA Executive Board sent the following message to all Senate faculty on February 7, 2020 in response to the announcement that the graduate students would begin an open-ended strike on Monday, February 10, 2020. Dear Colleagues, Faculty members…
December 13, 2019 Dear Colleagues, The Santa Cruz Faculty Association (SCFA) continues to support our graduate students’ demand for a COLA to deal with high costs in Santa Cruz. Now that graduate students are involved in a grade strike, faculty…
The SCFA sent the following message to faculty on 12/11/19: Dear Colleagues, The Santa Cruz Faculty Association (SCFA) supports the graduate students’ demand for a COLA to deal with the extreme rent burden they face living in Santa Cruz.…
The SCFA is pleased to announce that the University’s contract with Academic Analytics (AA), a private firm that contracts with universities to manage a range of data, including faculty research productivity and other material used in the personnel and resource…